Health Care

The report , which the CDC noted was based on preliminary data , revealed that in 2017 nearly 30,000 people died of overdoses of synthetic opioids, an increase of more than 9,000 from the previous y...

And the majority of them are due between October and January. Those looking for nursing jobs in Arizona will likely find employment opportunities at the center when all of these future mothers take th...

There were no cases of hepatitis A among Northern Kentucky residents previous year. A fifth person has died in Louisville from hepatitis A, according to the Louisville Metro Department of Public Hea...

The New Haven green is a meeting place for the homeless population in the city. "Whoever is doing it, is doing it on objective, handing it out for free, not even buying it, bad intentions from the s...

Top U.S. retailers such as Home Depot, Target, Walmart and Amazon are sticking by Monsanto's controversial weedkiller Roundup one week after a California jury awarded a school groundskeeper $ 289 mill...

Those who had a moderate carb intake had four years added to their life expectancy compared to those with very low carb consumption, and one year more than those with high consumption. While direct co...

Dozens of deaths among women in Latin America have been put down to the use of synthetic polymers such as the one Dr Furtado is alleged to have used. This created a "prohibited risk", elevated by th...

NYU School of Medicine is the first private USA medical school and the only one ranked in the top 10 to offer free tuition to all its students, the university said in a press release. It has raised mo...

The medic, whose real name is Dr Denis Furtado, performed a buttock-enlarging operation on Lilian Calixto, helped by his mother. Dozens of deaths among women in Latin America have been put down to t...

A third of the cells were exposed to plain e-cigarette fluid, a third to different strengths of the artificially vaped condensate with and without nicotine and another third were exposed to nothing fo...

The study was a psychology experiment involving a total of almost 1,300 people from a number of different countries with different systems of organ donation, including the US, UK, Germany, Austria, S...

With its white sand beaches, handsome waters and lush vegetation, it's a place many long to escape to for serenity. The region is not alone in struggling with obesity, and going by the 2016 World Fa...

According to the CDC , in 2017, 118 people from 15 states and the District of Columbia were reported to have measles. In 2015, 188 people contracted measles. Measles is a contagious virus that spread...

Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now owns 108,010 shares in the company, valued at $8,887,062.80. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 1.2% compared to the same quarter...

The European Medicines Agency, similar to the FDA in the US, said it is working with worldwide partners to review the impact of the NDMA found in valsartan from Zhejiang Tianyu, but "there is no immed...

The commission sent out an alert on August 10 to the Hackettstown Police Department, which alerted residents on Facebook that 12 new samples of mosquitoes tested positive for the West Nile virus in Wa...

Const. David Hopkinson told Global News late Tuesday evening investigators suspected the drugs are part of a lethal batch of fentanyl or carfentanil. They say the two synthetic opioids have either con...

One local politician told the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal when Burns was hired that the city was "very excited" to have her on board. "Such a senseless tragedy, we never want this to happen agai...

If you think you have contracted West Nile virus contact your doctor or other health care provider. However, the chances of getting West Nile Virus from an infected mosquito are low, according to th...

Events

Some are going as far as dunking their food in, and drinking bleach - yeah, I'm being serious. The results were gotten from a survey carried out by the CDC. "The biggest spaces were found in knowledge about safe preparation of cleaning and disinfectant solutions and about the storage of hand sanitizers out of the reach of kids", added the CDC.

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Administrators of both universities, which are affiliated, said Saturday's graduation for the technical university would instead be "refocused" on students, with a nursing graduate as the only speaker. "We are excited to host a truly unique commencement ceremony during this unprecedented time for our students to celebrate with family and friends their accomplishments" said WSU Tech President Sheree Utash said in a release.

The awards will be presented in virtual format, and the broadcast of the award ceremony will be done from a closed studio. The lack of diversity at the Bafta film awards in January was a major talking point, with Steve McQueen saying the awards risked becoming " irrelevant " if it continued to ignore BAME talent.

Molly said during the first two days of bringing him home, Chai was "like a normal puppy " but then he became very unwell and lethargic. In a statement to Newsbeat, though, the company that sold Mr Chai , Tiffany Puppies , has insisted he was a "a healthy dog".